Photography: A Very Short Introduction

• A clear, lively, and imaginative approach to the definition, importance, and meaning of photography
• Challenges readers' notions about the definition of photography, and why it is such an important part of our cultural life
• Includes both well-known and more unusual photographs, from the highly controversial Cottingley Fairies photograph to Ansel Adams landscapes, and from the shocking and influential Eddie Adams image of a Vietcong suspect being executed to the portrait work of Cindy Sherman.

Readership: Anyone with an interest in photography, art, and art history. Students of art subjects and media studies.

Steve Edwards, Research Lecturer in Art History at the Open University

1: Forgetting Photography
2: Documents
3: Pictures
4: What is a photograph?
5: The apparatus and its image
6: Fantasy and remembrance
Afterword: Digital photography
Further reading